The following extract from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health describes the Act to Improve Healthcare Provision through Digitalization and Innovation of 2019. Apps on prescription, easy use of online video consultations and access to a secure healthcare data network...
The following extract, written in German and translated into English using Google Translate, from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health, describes the Appointment Service and Care Act of 2019. Patients are to get doctor's appointments more quickly, and health insurance...
The following extract from the Commonwealth Fund describes the 2018 SHI Contribution Relief Law. The first new bill introduced in 2018 (the SHI-Contribution Relief Law, or GKV-Versichertenentlastungsgesetz) aims to reduce the mandatory contributions that individuals...
In 2017, the Moroccan government promulgated the law relating to the compulsory insurance scheme (AMO) for self-employed professional categories. This scheme covers self-employed people working in a liberal profession; traders and craftsmen keeping accounts; people...
The following extract from a case study by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work describes the Preventative Health Care Act of 2015. In 2015, Germany passed an act to strengthen health promotion and preventive healthcare, the Act to strengthen health...
The National Basic Health Insurance Act of 2014 mandates that every resident in Suriname take out at least basic health insurance. For formal sector employees, premiums are shared with employers. Self-employed subscribe, and government subsidizes health coverage for...
The 2010 Medical Benefits Act establishes the Medical Benefits Board to administer the funds collected for the Health Benefits Scheme in Antigua and Barbuda.
The following extract from the Journal of Population and Social Security explains Germany’s long-term care insurance act of 1995. The new social long-term care insurance scheme (Pflegeversicherung) came into force at three different stages: from January 1, 1995 on...
The following extract was written in German and translated into English using Google Translate from Wikipedia. The Risk Structure Compensation (RSA) is a financial compensation mechanism in social health insurance systems with freedom of choice between health...
The following excerpt, written in German and translated into English using Google Translate, from a press release by Germany’s Federal Council describes the Pharmaceutical Budget Replacement Act of 2001. Today, the Bundesrat approved the law on the replacement of the...
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The 1997 amendment modifies the Health Services Act 1969 CAP 44 of the Laws of Barbados. While majorly dedicated to the duties of the Ministry of Health, specific sections detail health financing aspects including pricing and cost recovery.
The following extract from Germany’s Federal Agency for Civic Education, written in German and translated into English using Google Translate, provides the historical context for the Health Structure Act of 1992. The Health Structure Act of December 21, 1992, comes...
The following extract from the article “Reform of Health Care in Germany” in the Health Care Financing Review describes the Health Care Reform Act of 1989. Finally, following a jump in average contribution rates from about 11.5 percent to nearly 13 percent in the...
The National Insurance Act of 1986 establishes the national insurance services in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Initially for health only covering work place injury, in 1994 regulations were passed regarding benefits which included sickness and maternity coverage.
